Harry bowed before speaking, "Your Majesty may I introduce my wife, Lady Hermione Jane Potter Gryffindor, my father Dr Daniel Granger and our best friends Dobby and Winky Potter. We understand exactly what you are going through at the moment because the same man abducted our adopted daughter on New Years Day, luckily she escaped."
Harry now had everyone's undivided attention as he spoke to the Queen, "what we have to tell you goes way beyond the 'official secrets act' so I would ask that we reduce the numbers present to the bare minimum though we will need a military presence to organise the rescue."
Harry could spot the flunkies at once, their 'how dare this upstart question how important we are' attitude was a dead giveaway.
The Queen retained her top two advisors and the head of her military though there were still four armed guards in the room, they were joined by the Prince and Princess of Wales before Harry sealed the room and erected privacy charms. Hermione, Dobby and Winky had the guards asleep in under a second as Harry reassured the others.
"Please don't worry, we mean you no harm but what we have to say needs to be heard by as few people as possible. I am a wizard, my wife is a witch, her father is a dentist while Dobby and Winky are elves." The elves dropped the glamour charms to gasps from everyone but the Queen; she was made of sterner stuff.
"The children were abducted by a technique called apparition which Dobby will demonstrate" Dobby popped next to the prince before popping him to the other side of the room.
"With your permission ma'am I would like to bring in a couple of friends to prevent this happening again, they will erect invisible shields around the palace that wizards can't apparate through." The Queen just nodded as if she'd lost the power of speech.
Dobby and Winky disappeared but returned soon after with an even greater shock for the assembled company. "Your Majesty, may I present Ragnok, leader of the goblin nation and his associate Griphook."
Both goblins bowed to the Queen, "Your Majesty, the goblin nation would consider it a great honour if you would allow us to ward the palace against future attacks of this kind. It will be invisible to anyone but a wizard, and any wizard or witch, other than Lord Gryffindors family, attempting to breech the wards will immediately be transferred directly to a prison cell."
The Queen again nodded her head in agreement so both goblins, bowing deeply, apparated to Gringotts to arrange the palace wards.
The Queen asked, "excuse me Lord Gryffindor but can I ask how your daughter managed to escape and do you know what this man wants with my grandsons?"
"Our daughter was wearing a special bracelet that is also a portkey, when she speaks a certain phrase it brings her directly to us no matter where we are. We will of course arrange for all the grandchildren to have these devices today but as to your second question." Harry handed the Queen the letter for them all to read.
"The wizard in question is Albus Dumbledore who escaped from the prison which we put him in. He held a high position in our government and was headmaster of the British Wizarding School; he was a very respected member of our society on the surface but was breaking just about all our laws to reach his goal. We are not sure what his eventual goal is but know that it involves me; we think he is insane enough to kill the boys if I don't follow through with his request but he won't harm them before that. Dumbledore is a very powerful wizard who has had his own way for so long he just expects people to carry out his instructions without question and for years in our world that's what happened. He will turn up tomorrow and he will bring the boys, what needs to happen is the neutralising of his brother while we duel. As soon as that happens the elves can get them out of there in a second."
Every person in the room knew exactly what Harry meant by 'neutralising' and there was not one objection, abducting children was way over the line, it was time for the Dumbledore brothers to be taken down.
The princess asked, "Would you really die for my boys?"
This was the crux of the matter, "your Highness, my wife and I share a soul bond, this means that should one of us die the other would follow. Hermione is pregnant with triplets, two girls and a boy. My wife and I would die for our family but in this case the price would be my family, I could not pay that price. When we free the boys I will kill him so we can live our lives in peace."
"I understand your answer and totally respect it," said the Prince, "I have so many questions but realise that this is not the time so what do you need from us?"
"Snipers!" answered Hermione, "but we may have a problem." She cast a disillusionment spell over her father and the military official nearly fainted with the thought of what his troops could do with that. "He will either have the boys disillusioned or under an invisibility cloak so we need a way for the snipers to see the boys so they wont get shot. We can't use magic or they would sense it."
"My wife and I will be able to see them, he's keyed the effect to my magic, so she will be in the sport stand with Dan on a radio and Winky beside her, ready to rescue the boys." Harry knew Hermione hated this part of the plan but there was nothing to be done, only the two of them will be able to see the boys and he would bet money Dumbledore didn't know that she could. "Dobby will be my second and watch my back."
The military man spoke for the first time, "Unfortunately the best man to lead this is in Utah and there's no way to get him back in time."
"Would you like to take a bet on that?" asked a now visible Dan Granger.
Fifteen minutes later Major Tom Davies appeared with Dobby and Winky, his "What the f…" died in his throat and he was bowing before even realising what he was doing.
"It's quite alright Major, I've thought the exact same phrase at least a dozen times in the last hour alone."
No one was quite sure what the protocol was when the Queen cracked a joke but Harry and Hermione laughed anyway.
"I know exactly how you feel your Majesty," said Dan Granger with great feeling "we were told on Hermione's eleventh birthday that she was a witch and that phrase has become an old friend, especially as my wife is now pregnant and the baby will be a wizard."
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